"No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith."

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Source : "Multi-Secularism: A New Agenda" by Paul Kurtz, (p. 338), 2014.

Paul Kurtz

#Would Be Quotes #Virtue Quotes #Claims Quotes

“But what are wishes, compared with longings?”
“I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.”
“Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.”
“I am an Arsenal player and I don't think about anything else. I'm not going to say no to anybody, nor am I going to say yes to anybody. I did not say that I was going to leave Arsenal to go to Barcelona, because equally Barcelona doesn't want me.”
“Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two thousand were killed by being buried under the ruins of their hiding places."”
“There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.”
“I've learnt so much from the people I've worked with, about how to listen to stuff as it's coming together and not force anything.”
“Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.”

Source : Neal Shusterman (2012). “Downsiders”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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